What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
“What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.”
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What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
“What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.”
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“What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.”
“My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.”
“As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'”
“It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.”
“A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.”
“I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.”
“Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.”
“If you have a goal and you set your mind to it, you can absolutely achieve it.”
“My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.”
“I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.”
“In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.”